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With the new eyePhone you can watch, listen, ignore your friends, stalk your ex, download porno on a crowded bus, even check your email while getting hit by a train. All with the new eyePhone. From Mom.

The biggest revolutions will hopefully be in energy and energy storage, as that is what is holding us back the most in general. If energy was virtually endless and and easily stored for use, we could build and do just about anything we want. Power armor would be no problem, nor would extremely fancy prostheses, nanobots or just about anything else we can dream up. Eventually (and if we have enough) it would even bring us closer to creating matter from energy.

I've given this a lot of thought over the years and have come to the conclusion that, while energy storage technology is THE bottle neck standing between the present and a massive paradigm shift, it will simply never be allowed to progress past a certain level of energy density, precluding most things that we might dream of.

My reasoning, in short, is that ability to store energy inevitably allows for the rapid release of that energy, which enables destruction on a level proportional to that energy. ie. batteries are bombs.

It's scary to think that you can download wikipedia and put it on a microSD card that costs less than a t-shirt.

All that knowledge on something that can comfortably fit in your belly button ... just imagine that, a summary of all human knowledge sitting in your belly button. God I think I'll do that right now just for the hell of it.

I've undoubtedly learned more from Wikipedia than I learned in school. Today I learned that Alaska was called "Russian America" up until 1867, the year it was purchased by America! I also learned about the Old West. Check out those three maps of the states - interesting!! (I was watching Back to the Future 3)

I recently (maybe within the past 5 weeks) saw an episode on TWiT.tv where they had the female who does a TON of voices for one of the gps companies. I think she mentioned doing well over 100 voices, including the proper English woman, even though she's american, while having an actual english woman consult her language. They couldn't get that english consultant to do the voices though, because she was simply too shy lol... I thought that was kinda amusing in a way.

I'm not really concerned by my phone's lack of a VHS player, but I am concerned by its lack of a jack I can plug into an arbitrary video source and record to internal storage. There's definitely something we've lost here.

Holywood is specifically making a point to prevent this. They call it "closing the analog hole." Notice how new TVs do not have RCA jacks or any other analog inputs/outputs anymore? The MPAA is why. They want all devices to be digital so they can control how you consume it (e.g. the DRM on HDMI, Blu-Ray encryption key checks, etc.) and prevent you from recording it.

Everyone I know (I like in Britain) calls them Video Players and Video Tapes. Strangely generic once you think about it but it's apparently the norm here. I referred to it as a VCR a while ago and my parents asked me what I was talking about.

It would never be operational because you didn't have the foldable CD that came with, it would make an extremely loud noise whilst just shaking and not actually printing, and eventually if you tried to cancel the printing it would have a mental breakdown and fold back into its original position.

I remember getting headshots across the room on Pyramid playing 4-player splitscreen on a 13" TV. I'll never know how this was possible, as last time I fired Goldeneye up I discovered that at that distance an entire body is represented by a single pixel.

Almost, but I remember it was neat it would make so many click noises. I kind of hoped for numbers with lots of clicks in them.

Incidentally, dunno if it's true, but I have heard this is the reason why major cities have area codes with small numbers. Stepper switches were used (moving into a new position and connecting to a new line with every click), so smaller numbers took less time to dial, so area codes with smaller numbers were quicker to access. Hence 212 for New York, 213 for LA, 214 for Dallas, and 312 for Chicago.

He was an Irish tech journalist for a news paper. In the early 90's he wrote about digital music players the fit in your hand and always on internet streaming and all the stuff we see now a days. Unfortunately he fell down a flight stairs in his house and died leaving a young family behind. His son is a fairly cool guy.

Nope. The Cray-2 could do 1.9 gigaflops. The latest cell phones can do perhaps 100 megaflops at most. (Latest Android phones are benchmarked here. I couldn't find stats for the iPhone 4S, but the iPhone 4 clocks in at 33.4 megaflops.)